I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold wh

I am a person who doesn’t like waiting. I don’t like to wait in line, being put on hold when making a phone call, or arriving at an apartment to find that my panion will be     . And of course, I don’t like waiting rooms.
    , I realize that my agony(痛苦) will not be good for me, as an      crowded world can only mean one thing – more waiting.
     this, I have taken an action and decide to turn my frustration to productive ends. In short, I am looking for what I call “waiting-in-line”     .
These are volumes that contain materials      for being read in shortened words, so there is no extended story line to lose track of. Another      is that they be      enough to slip neatly into my back pocket.
The other day I went to the supermarket.      that the rain would keep most people away, I was      to see that the place was filled with     . Every checkout was open – and jammed! But I can      my pocket book and go to work.
The more the world demands that I     , the more I learn from my waiting library. Look at the followings: One Hundred Things Every American Should Know; The Poetry of Robert Frost; Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers; Still More Toasts. I have learned interesting and enriching things and much      from these books.
On a recent visit to the general store, I placed my order at the      along with six or seven people. The old female employee seemed to have her hands full as she rushed     . “Young man, just be     ,” she said to me.
No problem. I quietly opened my dictionary prose(散文) and poetical quotations. Perhaps the other customers      me as a bookish, lonely soul. But      did they realize that I was enjoying the      of Shakespeare, Thoreau, Homer and Ben Johnson.
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